Phuket Sandbox: Tourists have spent 906 million baht on food and drink - 781 million on health matters

[webfact]

File photo: REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File 

 

It has been revealed how much the Phuket Sandbox reopening of Thailand has affected the fiscal affairs of the country.

 

And the figures make for interesting reading, especially the breakdown of tourists' spending.

 

They were revealed by Thai business media after the CCSA meeting at Government House chaired by Thai PM Prayuth Chan-ocha yesterday. 

 

The Sandbox began on the 1st of July and has now run for 123 days.

 

In that time tourists have spent 4,260 million baht - 4.26 billion.

 

Their spending looks like this:

 

Hotels: 1.76 billion.

 

Tourism services (like goods and trips): 536 million.

 

Food and beverages: 906 million.

 

Medical and health services: 781 million.

 

Others: 227 million. 

 

It was further reported to the CCSA by a tourism group that 10.1 billion had been put into the wider economy through knock-on benefits in sectors like farming, industry and energy as a direct result of the Sandbox. 

 

Tax generated was 435 million baht.

 

1,082 million baht was earned by 13,759 workers. 

 

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[Paul Henry]

A new way of picking the lottery numbers?

[ronster]

So this is where all the massage workers went !

They have been busy massaging all these numbers to levels I’m sure must be real ????

[hotchilli]

Complete bo##ocks.

[DrMJA]

That includes the double pricing of the frarang? 

*Asking for a frien frarang. 

[MadMac]

So a few well connected "health service providers" pocketed almost half of all income that was meant to be for tourism.

 

Greed without limits. Amazing Thailand.

[Xonax]

On 11/27/2021 at 9:57 AM, webfact said:

Medical and health services: 781 million

Read: Covid tests and Quarantine for the unlucky who tested positive or had been in contact with these.